North Andover, MA -- September 9, 2004 --
PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill Cheeseman are pleased to announce the first
public beta test of new version 1.3 of their popular product, PreFab UI
Browser. UI Browser is the ultimate assistant for Apple's AppleScript GUI
Scripting and accessibility technologies. It helps you to explore,
manipulate and monitor the user interface of most Mac OS X applications
running on your computer. It requires Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar or newer, but it
works best with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or newer.

Download UI Browser 1.3 public beta 1 now at
prefabsoftware.com/uibrowser/.

With UI Browser, you choose an application in the Target menu, or press the
Control-Command-S hot key to read any application's user interface element
on the screen under the mouse. Then use UI Browser to browse all of the
target's user interface elements, view and set their attributes, perform
actions, send keystrokes, and observe notifications when any of the target's
user interface elements change. Generate AppleScript scripts by choosing an
item in the AppleScript menu.

What's New in UI Browser 1.3:

There are a great many new features, improvements and bug fixes in UI
Browser 1.3. For a complete list, launch UI Browser 1.3 Public Beta 1 and
open the Version History document from the Help menu.

Here is a brief summary of the most important new features:

1. Navigation in UI Browser is now greatly enhanced after a window or other
container in the target application is closed or hidden.

2. Clicking the Refresh button removes all destroyed elements from the main
browser view and adds all newly-created elements, such as new windows, just
as it did before, but it maintains the current element selection undisturbed
so you can continue working with it.

3. A new preference setting has been added, allowing UI Browser to display
all accessibility names in plain English (the default) or using technical
accessibility API names such as "AXWindow", "AXPress", "AXRoleDescription"
and "AXWindowCreated".

4. UI Browser's AppleScript menu now generates scripts designed for use
solely in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or newer. Some new scripts are generated,
and others have been enhanced for more comprehensive GUI Scripting support.

5. You can Command-click on elements and user controls in UI Browser while
UI Browser is behind the target application, without bringing UI Browser to
the front.

6. When running under Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, the Actions, Attributes and
Notifications columns in the main UI Browser window's drawers are now sorted
by name. Attributes can also be sorted by Type by clicking the Type column
header, to make it easy to see, for example, all UI element attributes
together.

Download UI Browser 1.3 public beta 1 now at
prefabsoftware.com/uibrowser/. Send comments, suggestions and bug reports
to support@prefabsoftware.com, and mention "UI Browser public beta 1" in the subject
line. UI Browser 1.3 public beta 1 is free of charge and fully functional,
but it will expire on November 1, 2004. Version 1.3 is scheduled for release
by the end of September.

PreFab Software, Inc. has unmatched experience controlling the GUI via
scripts, releasing PreFab Player in 1994 with continued sales and support
today for Mac OS 9 and earlier. In 2003, PreFab entered the world of Mac OS
X with PreFab UI Browser, a popular utility to support Apple's new GUI
Scripting technology. PreFab UI Actions, implementing "universal
attachability" for AppleScript, followed in 2004. Download fully-functional
30-day trial versions at prefabsoftware.com/. UI Browser and UI
Actions are based on Bill Cheeseman's Cocoa framework for working with
Apple's accessibility API.

This press release was originally issued by PreFab Software, Inc. For current information, visit PFiddlesoft.